Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-02-23
BRILLIANT CLOSE.
AN IMMENSE CROWD AT THE GHAPLINR
STREET RINK, LAST EVENING.
The Grand Industrial Fair and Exhibition Ends
With the Largest Crowd Of the Week
A Great Success.

Last evening witnessed the close of the
great fair and industrial exhibition, under
the auspices of the Ohio Valley Trades and
Labor Assembly, which has been under way
at the Chapline Street Rink since Monday
evening of last week. 1t has previously
been stated that the affair was o pro
nounced success, and it will do no harm to
~reiterate that fact, which is the most i'm.
portant one pertaining to the fair. And
it was not only an artistic success, but q
financial one as we'll.
Visitors have gone right down into the
innermost depths of their pockets and
fshed up all their spare change to contrib
ute to the fund being raised for such a
commendable cause as the fitting up ofsuit-
able quarters for the occupancy of the
Trades Assembly, which is now one of the
largest and most powerful bodies of the
kind inthe West. Monied men and poor
men have lent their aid in increasing the
furd and the committee in
charge of the fair and the
ladies who so nobly assisted
them, all deserve great credit for their un-
firing energy and zeal in its behalf. Their
work has been hard, but 1t is appreciated,
and they no doubt feel well repaid by the
grand success they have achieved,
The fair closed last evening IN a blaze oil
glory, so to speak. 1t was announced that
each ticket purchased would draw a
prize of greater or lesser value and
the moment the doors opened peo-
pie began hocking in, and presently
they began arriving so fast that the door
way wouldn't accommodate them. At 8
o'clock the crowd around the door reached
clear across the street and still others were
coming. A stranger would have imagined
that there was a flood and the rink was an
ark. -.A.
BY 8 o'clock the prizes ran out and this
fact was announced to the crowd, but they
were there and the majority Of them
wanted in, prize or no prize. The price OF
admission was then reduced from twenty
five cents to ten cents and then the pack
began. The rink was literally jammed
full of restless pushing humanity attempt
ing to promenade, but there was no prone
nading to be done, while others did not
attempt to gain an entrance and left. The
Chapline street door was then opened and
those who desired to leave did so through
that egress. 1t was intended to close
with a dance, but the crowd was
so large that dancing was impossible,
until a late hour when the crush had
ceased and the crowd thinned out some
what. A few dances ended the festivities,
and all left for their homes.
Every article in the building wasdisposed
of in the drawing, and aside from the few
that still remain unclaimed, there is moth
ing left but the bare stands, which will he
torn down to-day.
The watch rattle has been postponed until
Saturday evening in order to call in all the
unsold tickets. No tickets will be sold in
the meantime. BERTHE Plant won the schol-
arship in Frasher's Business College, he
having turned in $31. S5. Several articles
still remain unclaimed, among them the
water filter and cooler, which was won by
No. II. The Committee will not be able
to get things in shape probably for a week
so that the business can be settled up
and the net profits ascertained.